What did Charles Simic mean by: A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights. - Charles Simic Poet · Serbia Copy
+ Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Simic, Never Quit, Poetry, Silence, 0 - Charles Simic Poet · Serbia
+ When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Simic, Finding Happiness, 0 - Charles Simic Poet · Serbia
+ Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Simic, Crow, Evil, Snow, 0 - Charles Simic Poet · Serbia
+ To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Simic, Chance, Obsession, Self, 0 - Charles Simic Poet · Serbia
+ Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Simic, Distance, 0 - Charles Simic Poet · Serbia
+ A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Simic, Instant, Organisms, 0 - Charles Simic Poet · Serbia
+ Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Simic, Agency, Insomnia, Night, 0 - Charles Simic Poet · Serbia
+ Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Simic, Enough, Firefighter, Poetry, 0 - Charles Simic Poet · Serbia
I don’t think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing. - Jean Gabin
Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don’t suffer, I don’t complain. - Jeanne Calment Painter · France
Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author
I still feel the same way about God’s Word as I did when I was 15 and lost my sight. - Jennifer Rothschild Speaker/Author/Bible Teacher
Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us – the voyage we must make alone. - William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India